Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Meloidae

Posted by Rui Andrade on 06-08-2007 02:38
#1
Can you help me to ID these meloids?
Thanks

1- locality: Montesinho, Portugal
date: 2007/08/03
2- locality: Montesinho, Portugal
date: 2007/08/03
3- locality: Barcelos, Portugal
date: 2007/07/12

1-img147.imageshack.us/img147/8499/mylabris1uu0.jpg

2-img147.imageshack.us/img147/3476/mylabris2od9.jpg

3-img231.imageshack.us/img231/9706/meloidae3ha7.jpg
Edited by Rui Andrade on 01-11-2007 02:20

Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-08-2007 10:32
#2
Are these not Cleridae?

Posted by Isidro on 06-08-2007 16:12
#3
No, no, Meloidae.

I have keys for Aragonian species but is almost impossible identify these beetles by pictures, due to the enormous colour variation adn the microscopic diferencial characters.

Posted by Xespok on 06-08-2007 16:45
#4
Mylabris sp.

Posted by Isidro on 06-08-2007 19:43
#5
Mylabris s. l. Now are divided into Mylabris and Hycleus, but I'm not agree with this (it's silly! only if the pronotum have a suture, are Hycleus, but some Mylabris s. str. can have also a suture...)

Posted by Rui Andrade on 07-08-2007 00:25
#6
Thank you all.

Posted by Skrejcik on 11-08-2007 07:11
#7
no.1 : Mylabris sp.
no.2 : Mylabris varians
no.3 : Mylabris quadripunctata
Stanislav Krejcik
www.meloidae.com